nces, the resentment and suit of
Mr. Dillon, for instance? Understand, my dear lady, that suit for
divorce is not a trifling matter for Mr. Dillon, if he is not Endicott."

"Particularly as he is about to marry a very handsome woman," Edith
interjected, heedless of the withering glance from Sonia.

"Ah, indeed!"

"Then I think some way ought to be planned to get Anne Dillon and the
priest into court," Edith suggested. "Under oath they might give us some
hint of the way to find Horace Endicott. The priest knows something
about him."

"I shall be satisfied if Arthur Dillon swears that he is not Horace,"
Sonia said, "and then I shall get my divorce and wash my hands of the
tiresome case. It has cost me too much money and worry."

"Was there any reason alleged for the remarkable disappearance of the
young man? I knew his father and mother very well, and admired them. I
saw the boy in his schooldays, never afterwards. You have a child, I
understand."

Edith lowered her eyes and looked out of the window on the busy street.

"It is for my child's sake that I have kept up the search," Sonia
answered with maternal tenderness. "Insanity is supposed to be the
cause. Horace acted strangely for three months before his disappearance,
he grew quite thin, and was absent most of the time. As it was summer,
which I spent at the shore with friends, I hardly noticed his condition.
It was only when he had gone, without warning, taking considerable money
with him, that I recalled his queer behavior. Since then not a scrap of
information, not a trace, nor a hint of him, has ever come back to me.
The detectives did their best until this moment. All has failed."

"Very sad," Livingstone said, touched by the hopeless tone. "Well, as
you wish it then, I shall bring suit for divorce and alimony against
Horace Endicott, and have the papers served on Arthur Dillon. He can
ignore them or make his reply. In either case he must be brought to make
affidavit that he is not the man you look for."

"And the others? The priest and Mrs. Dillon?" asked Edith.

"They are of no consequence," was Sonia's opinion.

After settling unimportant details the two women departed. Livingstone
found the problem which they had brought to his notice fascinating. He
had always marked Arthur Dillon among his associates, as an able and
peculiar young man, he had been attracted by him, and had listened to
his speeches with more consideration than most young men dese